Our dry weather will soon be history with the start of another storm cycle carried on a moist Pacific trough moving into the Colorado mountains beginning mid to late day Saturday. A cold front associated with the system will make things interesting. Snowfall should begin...
[caption id="attachment_46479" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Sunny Colorado[/caption] Funny how sometimes a seemingly negative event can have positive effects. Case in point: our primary credit card was one of many recently compromised, resulting in a new credit card number. Today I was on the phone with Jeanne Bassett...
Southwest Colorado Resort of Telluride receives 33" in latest snowstorm [caption id="attachment_46427" align="aligncenter" width="191"] Snow god Ullr smiles on Telluride.[/caption] After a fairly dry fall, Norse snow god Ullr decided to smile on the Southwest Colorado town of Telluride. The ski area is now blanketed in snow after...
I don't watch TV much. I don't really watch TV at all—we don't have a cable or satellite account, so the only programs I see are on the iPad, the occasional series that was popular enough to replay on Netflix or YouTube snippets of Jon...
[caption id="attachment_45695" align="alignnone" width="600"] Wilson Range behind Mountain Village[/caption] "Telluride? Big mistake- you"ll never leave!" I had stayed for a few days with my friend Rico in Aspen, was headed for some solo camping in the Canyonlands, and got a noon-ish start because of a mid-fall snowstorm...
[caption id="attachment_45324" align="aligncenter" width="704"] A group of Waura Indians fish in the Puilanga Lake near their village in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil's Mato Grosso state. 2005.[/caption] Rena Silverman, met up with the photographer Sebastiao Salgado, in New York City on Thursday and conducted a...
[caption id="attachment_45287" align="alignright" width="199"] The start of the trail[/caption] When you have kids, you give up a few things. Sleep. Money. Time. You accept the trade-off: deprivation for family. Andy and I were down with all of that. But one thing we weren’t okay with giving...
As reported by Nick Visser, the associate green editor at The Huffington Post, Hundreds Of Thousands Turn Out For People's Climate March In New York City. More than 300,000 people turned out for the People's Climate March in New York City on Sunday, just days before many of...
In the not so wonderful news category, Tom Kenworthy, a Senior Fellow at American Progress, reports that there are more oil and gas spills then ever in Colorado, most of which are not being reported to nearby residents. The more they drill, the more they spill. And...
Bear Creek is free. At least for now, according to the Telluride Mountain Club (TMC), an organization that works tirelessly to protect Telluride's crown jewel. On July 31 at 6 p.m. TMC will host "Bear Creek Freed!" a celebration of the Bear Creek Preserve with...
